Word Finder - mending

definition

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.

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My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.

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To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

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Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

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To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

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To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

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The act by which something is mended or repaired.

Her lip was still mending, but otherwise she didn't look as bad as expected.

Possible privatization of road mending services cause some concern.

No fence mending or anything like that has taken place.

James gear Order Thanks to all those who helped out at gear mending on Saturday.

It is employed in certain printing processes, as a cement for artificial stone and for mending glass, porcelain, &c., and also for making the so-called silicated soaps (see SoAP).

When relationships are worth saving, hard work and perseverance go a long way toward mending the ties that once bound two lives.

If you only do some occasional mending, stick with a simple and affordable model like the Kenmore 19112.

Whether she is mending Santa's plush red coat, tending to the elves or baking treats for the reindeer, Mrs. Claus looks amazing at every turn.

The radio dramas were usually aired in 15 minute segments each day and provided ideal "background noise" for housewives to clean house to whether they were sweeping, washing, cooking or mending.

These are useful for any mending that might need to be done as well as machine quilting most quilt tops.

The bible of 1727 is a little torn and wants mending.

Description of school, pupils and curriculum, which included shoe mending.

Mrs Bennion had a lady in to sew her clothes but the maids would do some mending.

You don't want to begin with poor materials that may later require frequent mending.

Like net mending it is an emminently social occasion with lots of people gathering around and talking.

Although not invisible mending, the repair is not too obvious on a patterned seat.

She finds Greg mending a fence which has been damaged by fly tippers.

The webmaster has childhood memories here of fisherman mending their nets and seeing urchins being prepared for eating.

Mending your dripping tap washer could save you over £ 18 a year.

In 1907 he took a prominent part in advocating the ending, rather than the mending, of the House of Lords; and in 1908 he was elected chairman of the party, a post which he held for two years and to which he was reelected in the autumn of 1914 when the then chairman, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, had to resign owing to his pacifist views.

There is no reason to doubt that most of the records have at least a basis of fact, for the cases are in accord with well-attested phenomena of a similar nature at the present day; but there are others, such as the miraculous mending of a broken vase, which suggest either invention or trickery.

Gum tragacanth is used in calico-printing as a thickener of colours and mordants; in medicine as a demulcent and vehicle for insoluble powders, and as an excipient in pills; and feltsetting and mending beetles and other insect specimens.

Are you sure the church roof actually needs mending?

In 1742 a workman named Thomas Bolsover was mending the handle of a knife made of silver and copper, when, accidentally overheating it, he caused the metals to fuse and flow, and found that as a consequence the silver adhered to the copper as a thin coating.

In 1840 Millet went back to Greville, where he painted "Sailors Mending a Sail" and a few other pictures - reminiscences of Cherbourg life.

Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.